Cezanne's B-day and Thanksgiving

This past Sunday was Cezanne's birthday, but I can't say how old she is...

We went to "Siroc" for dinner and had some great food. I highly recommend it. It was really good, but not too expensive, I think around $80 for both, including one drink and a split dessert.

I ordered a "Gimlet" which is basically vodka (or gin) and lime juice with a little mint. When I got it, it tasted like straight vodka, with a hint of mint. After sipping on it for a bit I told the waitress I was a light-weight and asked for some more lime juice.

Cezanne loves to be "cozy" as she says, so last Saturday I got her some Ugg slippers and she loves them. Good thing she made it easy by suggesting slippers.

My brother Jason is in Djibouti in Africa, so we made a sign for him for our Thanksgiving Day photo. Not a bad photo given that we used the timer on the camera.

Here is a shot of the gang without the sign. We had a great time and had great food.

I ran 8.6 miles on Friday and did an easy (but wound up being painful) 36 mile ride on Sunday. My legs are thrashed from the run, especially my hip flexors and nagging left hamstring. I'm not sure what I did to it. I might go out and try to do an easy 25 miles on the bike today. Last night my throat started hurting...looks like the beginnings of a cold.

Pretty boring post, but I had to throw something up here, since it's been a while.

Luv Cycles t-shirts

My High School friend Mike started a cycling clothing and info company: luvcycles.com

I wanted to get the kelly green shirt with yellow heart, but my brother already got that one, so I opted for the gray. The material is perfect.

I went for an 8.7 mile run today, really slowly, and wound up at a 9:02 minute mile pace. That's the farthest I can ever remember running. It was raining (hence no bike ride) and about 50 degrees, but it was actually pretty nice. My heart/lungs felt great (since I was going so slow), but the upper quads (I guess the hip flexors) were the only things bothering me.

I've been doing a 4 mile run twice a week just trying to slowly build up and get some miles in my legs and previously did a max of a 6 mile run. This is all in preparation for the half-ironman in June. I know my cycling schedule/racing next year is going to be hurting because of the running...and eventually the swimming.

Here is the slow run info: http://connect.garmin.com/activity/17722486